Tag: Hefazat-e-Islam

Islamists on the back foot, GOB steps up

- Afsan Chowdhury -

The clampdown on Islamists of various kinds is a new trend. The present government was once dubbed as “Islamist”: friendly by its critics particularly after it held Hefazat’s hands post 2013. Although the Islamists were actually trying to bring the AL government down and the move was supported by the

Hefazat leader Mufti Farooq arrested in Bishwanath

- Times Report -

Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mufti Farooq Ahmed was arrested on Tuesday evening in a case filed over attack and vandalism in Jamserpur and Dhalipara village in Rampasha union of Sylhet’s Bishwanath Upazila during the group's strike. He was arrested from the Bishwanath-Osmaninagar Upazila border area during a police raid. He had been absconding since

Ex-Hefazat leader Mamunul sent to jail after remand

- Times Report -

A Dhaka court on Monday sent former joint secretary general of Hefazat-e-Islam and general secretary of its Dhaka city unit, Mamunul Haque, to jail upon completion of his remand in police custody in a case filed with Paltan police station over Hefazat’s mayhem in Baitul Mukarram Mosque vicinity, this March. Metropolitan

Hefazat on the run?

- Afsan Chowdhury -

Although the Hefazat and the shushil community in Bangladesh and abroad were convinced about Islamist power, the government it appears wasn’t. Some saw in Hefazat  an overwhelming monster that could swallow their vision of Bangladesh. To the government, it seems, it was another threat to manage. BNP had also bought the

Sexuality and politics in the time of corona

- Afsan Chowdhury -

The Hefazat leader who was found at an expensive resort with a woman who many are saying is/isn’t his wife is the biggest news in town. PM Sk. Hasina and other leaders have gone public saying that the lady in question is not his wife. Hefazat meanwhile has declared his

Baitul Mukarram violence: Mamunul, 16 others sued

- Times Report -

A case has been filed against 17 people, including Hefazat-e-Islam’s Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque, in connection with the violence that took place in the city’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area on March 26. Khandaker Arifuzzaman, a businessman of Wari area, filed the case with Paltan Model Police Station on Monday

The taming of Hefazat

- Afsan Chowdhury -

That people who live in glass houses should not throw stones was proven on the 3rd of April as Hefazat leader Mamunul Haq was found in a resort with a lady he claimed to be his second wife. As the storm grew and he was about to be taken in,

Hefazat attack instigators won’t be spread: IGP

- Times Report -

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed on Wednesday said that people who are behind the violence unleashed by Hefazat-e-Islam would be brought to book. The IGP made the remarks at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the afternoon while visiting police members injured in clashes with Hefazat in Chattogram and Brahmanbaria. Hefazat’s top